George Crook Quotes
The Indian is a human being.
Crook, George. Quoted in The Ponca Chiefs: An Indian's Attempt to Appeal from the Tomahawk to the Courts, by Thomas Henry Tibbles, Lockwood, Brooks & Co., 1880.
See {613385} ,{588836}, {613381}, {613384}.
Ernestine Louise Polowsky. Rose was an atheist as well, a rarity for abolitionists of the time.
This quotation illustrates a huge difference between Roman Slavery (as well as slavery in many other societies) on the one hand and American Slavery which was much more pernicious. In Rome, slave and master status was a function of circumstances—events and luck. The slave was inherently no less able than the master. Indeed, if a battle might have gone the other way, their roles could be reversed. There was huge inequality of rights and privileges, between slaves and masters, but inherently they were both humans. Often slaves as a result of life before capture were very educated—far more so than their masters. Some were leaders, some poets. In American Slavery there was an overlay of inherent inferiority which most Southerners believed, and worst of all, the perpetuation of that notion tended to be believed by most American slaves. The American slave never had the human dignity that a Roman slave did.
Earlier in his life, the President had very racist views towards the American Indian as can be seen in {588991}. However, in his regiment he organized—the Rough Riders—for the Spanish American War, there were a number of Native Americans who acquitted themselves with distinction and Roosevelt had a change of mind and heart. Further he was somewhat older and had time to reflect on the irrationality of his earlier view.
George R. Crook was a career United States Army officer, most noted for his distinguished service during the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. During the 1880s, the Apache nicknamed Crook Nantan Lupan, which means "Chief Wolf."
